Coincidence?

So as many of you may know 2 weeks before my sister's wedding my car got broken into and some tried to steal it. Bad news bears especially since Josh was still in school and we don't work well as a one car family. I luckily got it back the day I left for Chattanooga. The jeep turned out to be clutch at the wedding with all the stuff we had to bring back.

So now here we are 2 weeks before my wedding and Friday night I get into a car accident. My car is once again out of commission and I have no details on if it's fixable or not. I had already planned how my car would once again be used to bring things home from the wedding and put my sister in charge of driving it. Obviously I am just happy no one is hurt and I'm going to St.Lucia in 2 weeks so I am happy!

I just can't help but wonder does my car hate Hoffman's getting married? It was after all Katherine's car first.

In other news we are 12 days away from the wedding I am so excited!!! More things have of course popped up out of nowhere but I find the closer we get the less I care.

Still haven't written my vows..maybe I can wing it?!

Music

So I've decided on some songs for the wedding. I will walk down to 'Here comes the sun' - I can't decide if I want to an instrumental version or the one with the words as well. The bridesmaids will walk down to 'Love and some other verses' by Iron and Wine and then Josh and I will walk back down to 'All you need is love', then Josh and I will dance to 'Something' - Beatles for the first song I can see if perfectly in my head and I'm so excited!!!

We have had the DJ booked for while and he has a website where you can pick out your play list and make a list of must play songs and DO NOT play songs. As most of you know music is super important to me so I feel like there is a lot pressure. However I have seen our DJ do another wedding (Kelly and Adam's) and I am confident that he will do a really good job.

What are your favorite wedding songs??

FOUND!

After what seems like years of searching (really 2 months if I'm being honest) we have found our house! You would think just finding a house to rent would not be that hard but we quickly found it was.

Our new house is super close to Kristin and the boys, Kelly, Josh Lamkin and a couple others - I'm very excited about our new neighbors. It is an all brick house with hardwood floors. 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and an amazing kitchen the house is old but the kitchen is newly renovated and beautiful!! We really wanted 2 bathrooms but if we both want to be in our bathroom now (at the same time) one of us has to stand in the shower. So at this point 1 big bathroom would be awesome.

We move in the same weekend of my first wedding shower - sorry Josh! I have been looking at home related blogs trying to get ideas of how to decorate on the cheap; we definitely plan to stay there for a while. The owner is being very cool about letting us paint and do pretty much whatever else we want.

I stumbled across this blog, http://www.younghouselove.com/. I basically want this couples life. They blog and makeover things (rooms, houses, yards, etc.) for a living!

Of course we want to immediately get Bacon (the dog) now that we have a house but have decided it's best to wait until after the wedding. Which is in 86 days!!

Girlfriends

I had a conversation the other night with a girl that I don't really know that well and the first thing she said to me was 'Yea - I don't really like girls that much'. This is one of my biggest pet peeves especially at this period in my life I feel like I am leaning on my girlfriends more than ever. There was a time in my life where I used to say the same thing because I thought it was 'cooler' to be friends with the guys. It makes me sad for girls that don't have girlfriends or that think it's fun to fight with other girls. Guys are great and I have some wonderful guy friends..but you need the girls!!

Lately it seems like with Josh studying and working all the time I have had a lot of time to catch up on lost time with girl friends.

It just feels really good to be surrounded by good girlfriends. Those are the people that take you out to Smiths when you make your first sale, listen to you complain when have a bad day, be the first to throw you a birthday party, engagement party or wedding shower, watch stupid movies with you, talk about chick-lit, go bridesmaid dress shopping with you for 4 hours looking for the right color, take the time to schedule phone dates with you from D.C. or half way across the world, not give up on double dinner dates even if it takes 3 years, workout with you, shop and eat with you when you don't feel like working out, dance like an idiot with you, let you send all your wedding presents and RSVP's to their house, send you cards for every occasion, tell you when you are doing something stupid and go for a glass of wine with you after a long day.

I could go on and on but you get my point. Y'all know who you are and I love you - you make my life better everyday.

Today

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson



It's been one of those weeks and it's only Tuesday..vacation can't come soon enough!

Mason Jars and Purple

Whats on my mind today.....















Decided on Purple (lavendar and dark) and White for the wedding colors. And mason jars are just awesome....

Happy Thursday

(some of) My Favorite Boys

Last weekend Josh and I registered. It was an interesting experience. Originally we were both super excited; 'We get to pick out anything we want and people will buy it for us?!'. We started at Crate & Barrel and I instantly got overwhelmed there are so many things and options I had no clue what I wanted. Plus I have to decide right now what I will want in 6 months and use for years..pressure! It took us about 3 hours we gave up and went to lunch. After lunch we headed to Macy's where I was clearly over it and we left quickly. Josh has said that I am free to go by myself or with Kristin he even offered to watch the boys.

After registering Kristin brought Sawyer over for his sleepover at our house. We took him to the park and spent most of the rest of the day there. We had so much fun; the playground, kickball games, dogs and bicycles. He slept for 12 hours which was awesome and then waited patiently at the table for Josh to make his pancakes. It was for sure a nice glimpse of 'family life' but I'm still good. Josh however...


Discovering Josh's belly button it was apparently the most fun






Josh is his favorite person ever :)